VBS

Ella is attending a week-long Go Fish vacation bible school in town and is loving it. Every day they are rewarded for bring their bibles. Ella has been carrying her bible around and I caught her telling her little brother a story yesterday. 

It was a proud moment for me! Just had to share.

Getting Organized

With all my free time, I have begun to....organize. No this is not nesting. I have lived in this house for two years and done some organizing, but never had time to commit to doing it the right way. Well, nothing like the present to motivate a soon to be mommy of two to get busy.
I went to Target and bought several Rubbermaid tubes to help the process along, tackled the spare bedroom closet and the multiple boxes that contained the following:

• Photos
• Framed photos
• Unfinished photo albums- wedding and honeymoon
• College stuff
• Letters from family while in college
• and a collection of letters Kyle and I had sent each other

So I divided them up and am going to complete the albums first, I mean I need to get the wedding photos in order for goodness sakes! It is going on six years, it is time to get these in order!!! Next will be honeymoon, followed by OSU awards and honors and then wrap up Ella's album and get Juniors ready!

I worked on some job searching tonight and plan to get busy with the wedding photos tomorrow night. Next on the list of things to do is going through Miss Ella's infant clothes and dividing them into a stay and go pile. Maybe Ella can help with this process, but something tells me little hands will be a challenge.

The best part of organizing these things is you see the finished product and it is rewarding, well to me it is. Plus I am preserving our history for future generations. The cards and letters and photos took me back to many years ago and made me reflect on how far we have come. This process is more enjoyable than I thought.

Question for you

There is a song I constantly listen to at work, "Letter to Me," by Mr. Brad Paisley. And it makes me reflect on several life lessons. If you knew the outcome of something that would happen to you in life, and had the chance to send yourself a letter, advising, assisting and reassuring yourself, almost like a warning, would you. Examples I thought of:

• Who will be my boyfriend, husband?
• Where will I go to college, will I like it? Will it be that great (YES)
  
• Kids?
• The places I would live?
• The losses I would experience/joys?
• My jobs and how it works out?
• Warning before friend fights, martial fights- warnings to be understanding and take a breath
• Will I change?
  

It is like reading the last chapter of a book you have been looking forward to reading, would you want the confidence of knowing that the characters end up together or is a happy ending... life gives us so many happy endings and can give us moments that bring us to our knees. I might still have one knee on the ground, but I am looking up.

I am amazed by all people, and it is remarkable how the good and bad bring us closer, sisterhoods are formed, friendships strengthened, tears and hugs shared, we begin to see what a large team we have rooting for us. The pride they have in us and share those sad moments like they are their own.

Thanks for cheering – I promise to be there for you in the good and bad! Always.

And to answer my own question, I would love to craft a letter of my life to my grand kids telling them of their grandma's crazy ways and experiences. I bet I mention a lot of you readers out there. I would try and balance the good with the bad. I believe we are given many great joys in life and I thank our Lord for those, and unfortunately we receive some heavy hits some time that bring sadness to our lives. It is a learning process, life. How blessed are we to get to experience it all. Makes us unique.

Thanks for reading.

Mindless

Ok, I need to get to work, but am not sue where to begin. It reminds me of Ella and her fear of going down the big slide at the playground, she would sit down and get ready then think about it, and back away, then move closer, then back away, and then say "No Mom" and move to the smaller slide. But give her a boy to chase and she is going down the big slide like a champ. I just need to inch towards the edge and let the slide of work flow. Nice analogy, huh??!!
Anyway, I must get after it.
Sorry for no weekend recap, no enlightening stories, but I have to go to the grocery store this evening and Ella is getting a haircut, so that should produce some interesting story.
Til then, thanks for reading.